Spanish police 'stop second attack'
Source: BBC
Spanish police say they have killed four people in Cambrils to stop what they say was a second attempted attack after an earlier one in Barcelona.
Police warned people to stay off the streets, with shots reported in the port of Cambrils.
Thirteen people died and dozens were injured when a van ploughed into crowds in Barcelona's Las Ramblas area on Thursday afternoon.
Spain's Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said it was a "jihadist attack".
Another attacker was injured by the police gunfire in Cambrils, a police spokeswoman said.
Spanish media reported that the Cambrils attackers struck several people with a van early on Friday morning, leaving them injured, in what appeared to be an attempt to replicate the Barcelona attack.
Tourists and locals fled when a rented vehicle sped down Las Ramblas in the centre of the city, mowing down people.
Two people have been arrested, but police say neither was the driver, who fled on foot.
So-called Islamic State has said it was behind the van attack in Las Ramblas, saying in a brief statement carried by its Amaq news agency that it was carried out by "Islamic State soldiers". The group gave no further evidence or details to back this claim.
The authorities also say an explosion on Wednesday evening at a house outside Barcelona that left one person dead was connected to the Las Ramblas attack.
Dozens of gas cylinders were found at the house in the town of Alcanar, about 100km (60 miles) south west of Barcelona, and Reuters quoted a police source as saying residents were preparing explosives.
In another incident, police shot dead a man who drove into officers at a checkpoint on the outskirts of Barcelona, but the authorities said there was no evidence that he was connected to the attack in Las Ramblas.
Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-40971004
jpak
(41,760 posts)McCamy Taylor
(19,240 posts)Rustyeye77
(2,736 posts)tough words
still_one
(92,482 posts)rocktivity
(44,583 posts)Couldn't we just go back to doing the macarena?
rocktivity
muriel_volestrangler
(101,399 posts)CottonBear
(21,597 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(101,399 posts)and also the men in Cambrils were wearing 'explosive belts', but they've now been confirmed as fake.
nitpicker
(7,153 posts)BreakingDeath toll rises to 14
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6:28
Emergency services have confirmed that the death toll has risen from 13 to 14 following the attacks in Barcelona and Cambrils. A woman injured in the Cambrils attack was the 14th person to have died, they said.
She is the first victim to have died in the Cambrils attack.